Hi All, I have a little application that uses XAPI to download city sized lumps of OSM data, which it puts into a posgresql database for rendering. It is becoming increasingly unreliable because of the problems with XAPI servers, so I am wondering what it would take to host my own database of the whole planet and keep it up to date to improve reliability.
My current home server (an old laptop, 2 core intel based with about 2GB ram running Ubuntu 10.10) works nicely doing daily updates for the UK only, but took several days when I tried to upload Europe, so I haven't tried to do the whole world on it. I wondered what sort of hardware people think is required to import and maintain a database of the whole planet? The other thing is that it is using posgresql 8.4, but I think 8.3 is supposed to be faster - is the difference significant enough for it to be worth me changing to 8.3? I also worry about my carbon footprint, so minimum power consumption is important too (that's why I like my old laptop as a server - <30W for what is a fairly powerful computer. Any thoughts would be appreciated! Regards Graham. -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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